With a title like that it's almost impossible to resist watching the video is there? :bouncy:

"The core of this synthesizer was grown in a lab from actual living cells sliced right out of its creator. Skin cells are transformed into stem cells which then form a neural network – one that exists not in code, but in actual living tissue."

I felt this was a little contrived, but it's nevertheless most innovative and neatly done, so ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Neil Mendoza’s 'The Electric Knife Orchestra' playing 'Stayin' Alive'

‘Light Chords’ aims to create the sensation of being inside a massive musical instrument, touching the ‘strings’ to produce a sound and hearing it reverberate all around you. The beams of light rise into the sky when touched and then settle back down to be activated again.

Now this might not qualify for its innovative sounds, but the video accompaniment is positively beautiful, and innovative because Kamiel Rongen's trippy, fluid art videos a"re a kaleidoscopic pas de deux of water and paint contained within the artist's own aquarium. The paint, added to the tank at different pressures for different effects, seems to billow like smoke in one moment, crash like waves in another, and blaze like fire mere seconds later, all within its little glass fish bowl. It's way too easy to get lost in the psychedelia of it all."

Now this Kinetic sound installation certainly innovative, not for the sounds themselves, but the source of their stimulation:

"Computer algorithm collects from Internet the data on power and depth of shocks in planet's crust and captures all the earthquakes above 0.1 (Richter magnitude scale). On an average day there are up to 200 of such shocks. This data is converted into signals that control the motors which are attached to Thunder Drum acoustic drums."

"Pendulum Choir arose from our interest to realise a project on the theme of instrumental or vocal compositions and associate it to a machine, conceived and developed by us, to include the notion of movement. We wanted to establish a direct link between parameters of vocal music, such as the tone, the verbal material, the rhythm, the intensity, the density and mechanical parameters such as the speed, the position and the acceleration.

We also wanted to work on the direct effects produced by the movements and the positions of the singers on their voices; play on the constraints and the demands of the system. We wanted to provoke a natural relationship between movement and sound without an intermediate system of sensors and treatment of information. The themes of the vocal composition are breath and breathing. Throughout the performance the choir expresses different respiratory states, such as the breath of the ecstasy, respiratory oppression or the first breath. The movements of the machine place the singers in physical situations in connection with what they express vocally."